America has more witches than Presbyterians
Salem, we have a problem: A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be …
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Climate change not killing polar bears fast enough
No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the big white bastards simply aren’t starving and drowning fast enough: There are too many polar bears in parts of …
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Big Trouble in Little Wentworth
While the counting is close and will take another few days, it’s still more likely than not that the woke independent Dr Kerryn Phelps will narrowly win the seat vacated …
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Of course it’s all about money
An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant: Environment Minister Melissa Price has been accused of offending a key Pacific leader by declaring the region was “always” seeking cash from Australia, …
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Virgin on the ridiculous
It’s pretty rich for a private jet-setting celebrity to lecture the plebs about climate change. It’s pretty rich squared for a celebrity billionaire who owns airlines: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has likened …
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It’s always sunny in Chernobyl
The progress report is glowing: Ukraine launched Friday a park of photovoltaic panels at the former Chernobyl power plant as the country seeks to use solar power to give the …
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Your feel-good story of the day…
…involves goats, of course. Also, a useful reminder that despite the politics working very hard the past few years to convince us, the rest of the world can still be …
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Blowing up all over Iceland
Just over a year ago, I was walking in the shadow of one of Iceland’s largest and most unsettled volcanoes. Katla – kettle or cauldron in Icelandic – looms like …
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Welcome to the greener planet
Good news for the small “g” greens; big “g” Greens, not so much: From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 …
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Sinking funds, not sinking islands
Humouring the neighbourhood with taxpayers’ money: Australia will be expected to contribute to a new $US1.5 billion Pacific Resilience Facility to help island nations adapt to the impacts of rising …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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On San Francisco Shit Patrol
The progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
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Crisis of the 21st Century
In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third …
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It’s a Muslim “no go” zone – but for trees
Another instance when you should probably pay a qualified lawyer to engage in statutory interpretation: Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil action against Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa Kara-Ali in the …
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Will climate change make you top yourself?
Yes, according to a latest study: Global warming doesn’t just hurt the planet’s health — it harms people’s too. An alarming new study from Stanford University brings one major human-afflicting …
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Jerry Brown’s pants on fire
As California battles numerous fires across the state, Gov Jerry Brown has some scorching criticism: “We’re fighting nature with the amount of material we’re putting in the environment, and that …
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